Category Archives: 2018 NFL Draft

Pre-Combine Quarterback Thoughts The 2018 NFL Scouting Combine is just around the corner, a time when the professional football world descends upon Indianapolis to pursue dreams and consume St. Elmo’s Cocktail Sauce by the gallon. For many positions, the testing drills can result in dramatically improved draft stock, just ask Byron Jones or John Ross.…

What was once thought of as a championship team was nothing more than a figment of our imagination, as we watched the 2017 Giants crumble from the North, South, East, and West. Alas, Week 17 couldn’t arrive soon enough and us Giants fans went right into full draft mode, as an uncommon reality materialized into…

Kyzir White is a bad man. Plugging in the tape of one of the best strong safeties in this draft, two traits immediately stand out—his physicality and power. This was apparent in the flesh too. At the Reese’s 2018 Senior Bowl, I reflected upon the impact White made in tackling drills: “the thud he delivered…

DaeSean Hamilton has had an impressive last few weeks for a prospect trying to raise his draft stock prior to the Combine. The Penn State WR had himself a nice week during the Shrine Game festivities and then balled out in Mobile, Alabama during the week of practices at the Senior Bowl. His superb showing…

Stanford tight end Dalton Schultz was an early entrant for the 2018 NFL Draft after his redshirt junior season. He’s an athletic and interesting prospect for the draft, and one that tight end scout Ryan Dukarm was intrigued by, especially with his ability in the passing game. Check out Ryan’s Y Option draft series piece…

Part 1: The Day One Selections There comes a time in every person’s life when they have to push all their chips to the center of the table. When they have to just go all in, and lay everything bare for the world to see. Perhaps that comes when a person proposes marriage, and asks…

The season is officially over! However, with that comes the worst/longest 5 weeks for a football fan. Now, all there is until the 2018 league year starts on March 14th is complete speculation of what each team will do in the next couple months in Free Agency and the NFL Draft. So to join in…

Calvin Ridley is the best receiver I’ve graded thus far for the 2018 ITP Draft Guide. The tape is filled with displays of great quickness, suddenness and route running ability. All of which are traits that translate well to the NFL game for a wide receiver. Despite sounding like the consensus WR1, Ridley faces criticism…

As Michael Kist told the ITP crew at practice, “rankings are stupid”. I agree. So instead of ranking these safeties, which would ignore important factors such as schematic fit, I have decided to tier them. Before that, a few words on the overall group. The safeties at Mobile lived up to their intriguing nature.…

I’m not a believer that it is necessary for an evaluator to have live exposure to every player he evaluates. There are plenty of evaluators in the NFL Draft community that consistently ‘get it right’ grinding tape from their desks at home without the help of the favorable angles from All-22 tape. There are instances,…

While down in Mobile, Alabama, the Inside the Pylon team have been evaluating some of the best seniors in college football. Two players that had newsworthy play and measurements last week were LSU’s D.J. Chark and Alabama’s Levi Wallace. The two players are somewhat familiar with each other, both playing in the SEC West division…

It’s Draft SZN and that means Mock Drafts are coming out in full force. Since anyone who’s cool is doing it I decided it’s time for a Post Senior Bowl Mock Draft to get in on the trend. This isn’t based off what I think will happen, rather than what I would do if I…

What an incredible week. This was my second time attending the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama and it was even better than the first. I was able to meet a bunch of incredible people including the notorious Michael Kist who truly is an American treasure. I know that last sentence seems contradictory, but you’ll have…

All that is left down in Mobile is to play the game. The 69ths Senior Bowl kicks off Saturday afternoon, but the bulk of the work is behind us, so it is a good time to take stock of some of the goings-on down in Alabama. A bleary haze of BBQ, Miller High Life specials…

Day Two of Senior Bowl practices are in the books. Inside the Pylon staff writers Michael Nuttle, Matty Brown, Nick Falato, Andrew Jordan, Joseph Ferraiola and Mark Schofield are down in Mobile covering the week, and have their thoughts on the first day of practices. Here are their notes on the South team practice. Perhaps…

Day Two of Senior Bowl practices are in the books. Inside the Pylon staff writers Michael Nuttle, Matty Brown, Nick Falato, Andrew Jordan, Joseph Ferraiola and Mark Schofield are down in Mobile covering the week, and have their thoughts on the second day of practices. Here are their notes on the North team practice. With…